WWE: 13 Worst Match Stipulations In The Past 15 Years

13. Beat The Clock Challenge

A common saying says that "in life, father time eventually wins in the end," and this match type demonstrates that fully as competitors have to defeat their opponent in the least amount of time compared to others', usually to determine the number one contender for a championship. In an emphasis of quantity over quality, it does not matter how lackluster a performance you have, whether you goad your opponent into a disqualification, or if you have the best match overall, but whether how FAST you win. This came to light on Monday Night RAW, where Dolph Ziggler may have stolen the show and had a dominant performance, but with seconds left on the clock--oh, he couldn't roll fast enough to cover a dazed Mark Henry after hitting the Zig Zag, meaning that his performance did not matter in the end, because he did not win quickly enough. If one pays close attention to a storyline scenario, the Beat the Clock Challenge gets dusted off and reused as filler matches in the middle of an arc toward a Pay Per View, with hastily booked matches of low-level rivals, taking away intrigue and leading to rushed spots and a large, distracting clock ticking away all substance. Finally, if you watch the Pay Per View following such a match type, there is little to no storyline reference during the event itself, because it's difficult to sell that Rob Van Dam will face Wade Barrett at Payback for the Intercontinental Championship because he won his match the fastest in an arbitrary filler match. Perhaps this concept needs to be smashed as one would respond to an annoying alarm clock, similar to how Barrett delivered a Bullhammer Elbow to a celebratory Rob Van Dam on RAW.